Global Climate Change and Public Health
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"Global Climate Change and Public Health is a book that helps to define . climate change as well as the impact it is having on global public health. . This book should be valuable to all respiratory physicians, allergists, public health, and environmental specialists as well as public policy advocates and governmental agencies. It provides the background with which allergists can help to develop public health advocacy position statements and to bring about much needed policy change throughout the world." (Ivy Shiue, World Allergy Organization WAO, worldallergy.org, March, 2016)
"This book analyzes and evaluates outcomes of climate change on geo-meteorological and on susceptible population bases. . the book may be as useful to planners and public policy experts in modifying or even creating appropriate policies to contend with these changes. . Given its authorship by U.S. and international experts on respiratory health and climate change, the book should find readership in similarly constituted groups. . This book is essential reading at the highest levels of government and infrastructure." (J. Thomas Pierce, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2014)More details
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Kent E. Pinkerton, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Professor In-Residence, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis. He is also Director of the Center for Health and the Environment at the John Muir Institute of the Environment. Dr. Pinkerton's research is on health effects of environmental air pollutants on lung structure and function, the interaction of gases and airborne particles within specific sites and cell populations of the lungs in acute and chronic lung injury, and the effects of environmental tobacco smoke on lung growth and development. He is also a member of the Assembly for Environmental and Occupational Health of the American Thoracic Society.
William N. Rom, MD, MPH, has been at NYU since 1989 as Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine and Director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. The Division has 75 full-time faculty and over 25 fellows. His research is on early detection of lung cancer, environmental lung disease, TB/AIDS, and air pollution. He and his faculty have been awarded over $125M in NIH and CDC grants over the years. He is editor of 4 editions of Environmental and Occupational Medicine and 2 editions of Tuberculosis. He has published over 200 peer reviewed articles. He Chairs the American Thoracic Society's Environmental Health Policy Committee that advocates science-based air pollution standards. He has been a Fellow in the Department of Interior on National Parks and was a Senior Investigator at the NHLBI, NIH for 6 years deciphering the mechanisms of asbestosis. He was a Legislative Fellow for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and wrote the Family Asthma Bill, the Caribbean Wilderness Act, and the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Bill. He was the Founder and Director of the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Utah.
Content
1. Introduction: Consequences of Global Warming to the Public's Health
William N. Rom and Kent Pinkerton
2. Climate Variability and Change Data and Information for Global Public Health
Juli Trtanj
3. Climate Change: Overview of Data Sources, Observed and Predicted Temperature Changes, and Impacts on Public and Environmental Health
David H. Levinson and Christopher J. Fettig
4. Eyewitness to Global Warming
Will Steger and Nicole Rom
5. California and Climate Changes
Rupa Basu
6. Heat Waves and Rising Temperatures: Human Health Impacts and the Determinants of Vulnerability
Helene G. Margolis
7. Climate, Air Quality and Allergy: Emerging Methods for Detecting Linkages
Patrick L. Kinney, Perry E. Sheffield, and Kate R. Weinberger
8. The Human Health Co-benefits of Air Quality Improvements Associated with Climate Change Mitigation
George D. Thurston and Michelle L. Bell
9. Asthma, Hayfever, Pollen, and Climate Change
Anthony M. Szema
10. Dengue Fever and Climate Change
Lauren Cromar and Kevin Cromar
11. Impact of Climate Change on Vector-Borne Disease in the Amazon
William Pan, OraLee Branch, and Benjamin Zaitchik
12. Climate Variability and Change: Food, Water and Societal Impacts
Jonathan Patz
13. Household Air Pollution from Cookstoves: Impacts on Health and Climate
William J Martin II, John W. Hollingsworth, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan
14. Biomass Fuel and Lung Diseases: An Indian Perspective
Rajendra Prasad and Rajiv Garg
15. The effects of climate change and air pollution on children and mothers' health
Roya Kelishadi and Parinaz Poursafa
16. Climate Change and Public Health in Small Island States and Caribbean Countries
Muge Akpinar-Elci and Hugh Sealy
17. Global Climate Change, Desertification, and Its Consequences in Turkey and the Middle East
Hasan Bayram and Ayse Bilge Öztürk
18. Assessing the Health Risks of Climate Change
Kristie Ebi
19. Federal Programs in Climate Change and Health Research
Maya Levine and John Balbus
20. Management of Climate Change Adaptation at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Jeremy Hess, Gino Marinucci, Paul J. Schramm, Arie Manangan, and George Luber
21. Public Health and Climate Programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Erika N. Sasser and C.A. (Andy) Miller
22. California's Cap-and-Trade Program
John R. Balmes